GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Gleanings in Bee [I Culture 



E. K. ROOT A. 1. ROOT H. H. ROOT J. T. OALVERT 



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Contents for May 1, 1916 



EDITORIAL 339 



Comb Honey, Over-supply of 339 



Advertising Honey 339 



Death of C. H. Lake 339 



Drifting in Quadruple Cases 339 



Cherry-growers Want Bees 340 



Bees, How They Wintered 340 



Combless-paokage Business 341 



Milk from Sweet-clover Hay 341 



Beekeeping in Wisconsin 341- 



Covntry Gentleman on Sweet Clover 342 



Cold-water Paint 343 



Foreign Exchanges, Fate of 3 44 



STRAY STRAWS 345 



Clipping Wings on Both Sides 345 



Sealed Queen-cell Grubs 345 



Smelling Organs of the Bee 345 



DIXIE BEE 346 



BEEKEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES. 347 



National Beekeepers' Association 347 



NOTES PROM CANADA 348 



Clipping Wings by Women 348, 349 



Season in Ontario 348 



Devil's Paint-brush 349 



Sweet Clover in Ontario . 349 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE . 350 



Drawn Combs in Sections 350 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 351 



Feeding Supers of Bees in Outyards 351 



Imperial Valley, Bees in 353 



Trips to Out-apiaries 354 



Non-swarming System, Good 355 



Outyards vs. Central Plant 357 



Comb Honey from Out-apiaries 358, 362 



Colonies, 100 to the Apiary 359 



Automobiles for Outyards 363 



Out-apiaries in Rhode Island 364 



Swarming, to Prevent 361, 366 



Motor Cycle for Bee Business 368, 369 



Home Yards, Success with 370 



Auto Trailer for Out-apiary 371 



Visiting Apiary Pour Times a Year 371 



Sheep in Apiary — Poem 372 



HEADS OF GRAIN 373 



Winter in Montana 373 



Binding Journals 373 



Drouth Broken in New Zealand 374 



Comb Honey 2 Tons from 75 Hives 374 



Taxes on Bees 375 



OUR HOMES 375 



Christians and War 377 



Mites, Remedy for 378 



Pine Needles as a Mulch 378 



HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 379 



Spineless Cactus 379 



TEMPERANCE 380 



